Gianpiero Calabrese
Senior Lecturer
Department of Pharmacy
Kingston University London
United Kingdom
Biography
I was born in Salerno, Italy, where I completed my MSc in Organic Chemistry at Universita' degli Studi di Salerno. In 2004, I joined the Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Group at University of Portsmouth where I read for a PhD on the "Design, synthesis and preliminary in vitro evaluation of potential agents for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT)". In 2008, I joined the Department of Pharmacy at Kingston University, London, where I currently am Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics and Admissions Tutor for Pharmacy.
Research Interest
Drug delivery, Formulation, Electronic cigarettes: analysis, public health, pharmacology/toxicology, formulation.
Publications
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Theodoropoulos D, Rova A, Smith JR, Barbu E, Calabrese G, Vizirianakis IS, Tsibouklis J, Fatouros DG. Towards boron neutron capture therapy: the formulation and preliminary in vitro evaluation of liposomal vehicles for the therapeutic delivery of the dequalinium salt of bis-nido-carborane. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters. 2013 Nov 15;23(22):6161-6.
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Vimalarasa R, Foot PJ, Calabrese G. Evaluation of a smart polymer nanosphere for potential use in anticancer drug delivery. Polymers & Polymer Composites. 2014 Oct 20;22(9):753.
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Al-Kinani AA, Naughton DP, Calabrese G, Vangala A, Smith JR, Pierscionek BK, Alany RG. Analysis of 2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography: application for ocular delivery using chitosan nanoparticles. Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry. 2015 Mar 1;407(9):2645-50.
